This book
introduces the structure of Auslan and other signed languages (its vocabulary and
its grammar) to students of language and general linguistics.

It also provides learners of Auslan with accessible information about
how signs are made (phonology and morphology), what the different types of
signs found in the language are (fixed and productive vocabulary, as well as
gesture), and the way signs are put together to make sentences and tell stories
(grammar and discourse).

The book gives many glossed (written) examples
from Auslan. We plan to put hypertext links to video clips that illustrate all
of the examples. However, completion of this page will only be possible if we
can secure financial support to pay for deaf sign language models and media
professionals to make these clips. We hope that government or private support
will eventually become available to make this possible.

Recent research on the grammar of Auslan using the Auslan Corpus

Clickherefor supplementary Rbrul datatables to support the publication: